A review by janthonytucson
Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet by Noam Chomsky, Robert Pollin

4.0

This book is a interview with Pollin and Chomsky. There is some good points in this and I appreciate their caution about activism and how certain forms of activism can cause more damage than good due to perceived public perception. It is one thing to be right, and it is another thing to communicate and build coalitions to actuate the social momentum to change the system to make things right. This is the issue. No reasonable person in 2022 says the science is wrong anymore. However how do you convince a single mother of 2 who works 3 jobs and can't feed her children properly or afford simple doctor visits that this issue is of equal if not more importance to her than the immediate needs to survive? This is the crux of the matter, and this is where your energy should be focused on solving.

Essentially we have less than 8-years to completely change the system. I am not optimistic based on the books and reports I read, as we are not focusing on the right levers to actuate the change necessary - no one cares that the science is right, what we need to do is create a reason for why people should change, and this is social and no technological development will be able to optimize for this particular challenge.